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• Here Are the Nominees for the 2014 AICA Awards

  27-02-2015 23:53 via artnews.com
  Today the United Section of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA-USA) announced the nominees for its 2014 awards, which honor exhibitions, performances, writers, and blogs. More than 400 AICA will cast ballots to decide first- and second-place winners. Looking over the list may make … Read More
  
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• Sacramento Commissions $8 M. Jeff Koons Sculpture

  27-02-2015 22:36 via artnews.com
  In 1934, as America was suffering from the worst economic depression in the country’s history, an unimaginably destructive drought overtook the prairie states, centered particularly in Oklahoma, the Sooner State, whose motto is labor omnia vincit–labor conquers all things. All … Read More
  
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• Untitled(Sagittarians are little attention seeking whores who have no real ambition)

  27-02-2015 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  I feel my ex wife stole my family from me. I think about stealing her volvo that  I bought her and probably would steal if I had a licence. I’ve had many instances of stealing shit or taking shit. I have also had shit taken from me. LIfe is a big thief. It takes everything ... Continue Reading
  
  
  
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• Pompidou Centre hails recovery of £1.5m Picasso missing since 2001

  27-02-2015 20:27
  
  The Pompidou Centre in Paris hopes to put a lost Picasso masterpiece back on public display by the end of May – after a US attorney revealed it had been found in New York.
  
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• Pompidou Centre hails recovery of £1.5 million Picasso missing since 2001

  27-02-2015 20:27
  
  The Pompidou Centre in Paris hopes to put a lost Picasso masterpiece back on public display by the end of May – after a US attorney revealed it had been found in New York.
  
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• Just How International Is The Armory Show?

  27-02-2015 20:22 via artnews.com
  The Armory Show, which opens its 17th edition in New York next Wednesday, bills itself as “a leading international contemporary and modern art fair.” But just how international is it? We looked at where its exhibitors are based, and discovered that … Read More
  
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• Art gets rough justice in South African court

  27-02-2015 19:30
  
  Foreign donors will pay for bird droppings to be removed from Nelson Mandela portrait along with other restoration and conservation projects
  
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• The Risk-Taking Portraitist of the Upper West Side: On Alice Neel’s Tense Paintings, in 1962

  27-02-2015 18:38 via artnews.com
  Alice Neel, like many women artists of her time, was under-appreciated when she was alive. During the 1930s, Neel was employed by the Works Project Administration and painted urban landscapes. Between then and the ’60s, the art world nearly ignored her. During the ’60s, … Read More
  
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• Damien Hirst set back art by 100 years, says Henry Moore's daughter

  27-02-2015 18:25
  
  Mary Moore says Young British Artist put art back in the frame after her sculptor father had worked so hard to challenge the formal Victorian artform
  Damien Hirst has set back art by more than 100 years, according to the daughter of Henry Moore, the man who arguably changed British sculpture more than any other artist.Mary Moore said her father, who died in 1986, had challenged the narrative and formally-presented artwork of the Victorian era. Continue reading...
  
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• My highlight: Leonora Carrington

  27-02-2015 18:00
  
  Ahead of the Tate Liverpool exhibition, Chloe Aridjis is inspired by Carrington’s oracular animal hybrids, her great natural and mythical worlds – and her fierce authenticity“I am as mysterious to myself as I am mysterious to others,” Leonora Carrington once said in an interview. Loyal to their creator, the figures in her paintings are similarly hermetic and complex, often poised between what seems like enigma and revelation, envoys of hieroglyphs we can’t quite decipher. Sometimes the
  
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• Interview with Natalie Kane, comms officer, FutureEverything | Tech talk

  27-02-2015 18:00
  
  The writer, artist and curator on algorithms in art and why the best creative festivals are forums that develop ideas, not platforms that present them• More from the Tech talk series
  Hi Natalie, what can you tell me about FutureEverything and your role there?I’m the communications officer and copywriter for FutureEverything, a culture, technology and innovation organisation based in Manchester that makes connections between people, places, society and ideas. Related: Interview with product d
  
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• Niki de Saint Phalle artworks at the Guggenheim – in pictures

  27-02-2015 17:56
  
  A major retrospective of the French-American feminist artist, film-maker and sculptor has opened in BilbaoArtist provocateur: Niki de Saint Phalle retrospective at Guggenheim Bilbao Continue reading...
  
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• Artist provocateur: Niki de Saint Phalle retrospective at Guggenheim Bilbao

  27-02-2015 17:55
  
  Exhibition of French-American feminist artist, sculptor and film-maker’s work covers 200 works from the famous Nana sculptures to her shooting pictures“Very early I decided to become a hero,” Niki de Saint Phalle once declared. “Who would I be? George Sand? Joan of Arc? Napoleon in petticoats?” In fact, she became none of them. A woman who spent her life with a paintbrush in one hand and a 22-calibre rifle in the other, Saint Phalle is revealed in a new exhibition to have been both an
  
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• Preview the 2015 Independent Fair

  27-02-2015 17:49 via artnews.com
  It’s hard to believe that the Independent is now in its sixth year. It feels like just yesterday that it opened up for the first time (in 2010) at the old Dia Art Foundation building in Manhattan’s West Chelsea gallery … Read More
  
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• Bronx Museum Names José A. Ortiz Deputy Director

  27-02-2015 17:07 via artnews.com
  The Bronx Museum announced today that José A. Ortiz has been appointed the museum’s new deputy director. Ortiz comes from Artisphere, the arts center in Arlington, Virginia, where he served as executive director. There, he obtained sponsorship for “Frida Kahlo: … Read More
  
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• 2015 Armory Week Art Fair Cheat Sheet

  27-02-2015 16:28 via artnews.com
  Armory Week has returned! Here’s a rundown on the week’s most important fairs. Next Armory Show March 5–8 With an entire week of fairs dedicated to its name, the Armory Show is the largest of them all, with more than 200 exhibitors … Read More
  
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• Hollywood Cheers New Net Neutrality Rules

  27-02-2015 16:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  “This is clearly a victory for everyone — not just Hollywood, but everyone who uses the Internet,” said Chris Keyser, president of the Writers Guild of America, West. “It is a critical moment in the ongoing fight for free expression and robust competition.”
  
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• The Immortality Of The Written Word (Yeah, All That Is Changing…)

  27-02-2015 16:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In making the transition from an age of scarcity to an age of glut, the nature of fame itself undergoes a change. One sign of the difference is that it would be hard to find a poet, in the 21st century, who openly claims to write for glory, fame, or immortality. Yet the idea that […]
  
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• Writing On The Web, A Deeply Cynical Take

  27-02-2015 16:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Remember that first question: What is web writing in 2015? Is it still based on the author model? If you enjoy watching a writer’s mind work over time (or you enjoy having that freedom as a writer), is there still a way to do that? Or is the writer’s-voice-driven Internet over, forever, everything’s atomistic now […]
  
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• Stedelijk Museum Makes A Startling Public Admission

  27-02-2015 16:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The Stedelijk Museum in the Second World War” recounts the daring ways in which the museum’s employees fought Nazi censors after Germany conquered the Netherlands in May 1940. But the show also features 16 works in the permanent collection by artists including Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky and Henri Matisse that the museum says it might […]
  
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• The Iranian banksy, bonkers bridges and Slinky beards – the week in art

  27-02-2015 16:00
  
  Impressionism is back, wild designs are unveiled for a new bridge across the Thames, Banksy returns to Gaza, and street artist Medhi Ghadyanloo’s eye-popping murals make Tehran smile – all in your weekly art dispatchInventing Impressionism
  This exhibition explores the rise of the first modern art movement through the unusual perspective of the way it was marketed by pioneering art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel. It’s the beginning of the art world as we know it.
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• Morning Links: Elephant Edition

  27-02-2015 15:25 via artnews.com
  Yves Bouvier, a Swiss businessman behind high-end free ports dedicated to storing and shipping art in Geneva, Luxembourg and Singapore, was detained in Monaco on Wednesday on suspicion of fraud. He is currently under investigation for fraud in the hundreds of millions … Read More
  
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• How A Radical Idea To Transform Public Spaces Failed In San Diego

  27-02-2015 15:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The concept behind the Lab — a cadre of designers embedded in the mayor’s office, with the power to revive public spaces around the city and launch a broad campaign of civic engagement — was unique in North America, and almost unimaginable in conservative San Diego. It seemed to answer the long-held desire of architects, […]
  
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• How Women Playwrights Are Marginalized

  27-02-2015 14:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Of course the heightened visibility of plays written by women is welcome. But all over the country, even at venues which are attempting to make female playwrights’ voices heard, there is often a gendering of theatre spaces when it comes to writers and directors.”
  
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• Full-time Development Assistant at a thriving performing Arts Center in Pasadena, CA

  27-02-2015 14:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  Boston Court Performing Arts Center seeks a full-time Development Assistant to assist with planning, administering, and implementation of all fundraising activities, other special projects and events.
  
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• Horseplay: What Hans Haacke's fourth plinth tells us about art and the City

  27-02-2015 13:59
  
  Hans Haacke has never been afraid to be political or offend the institutions of the art world. Now, with his sculpture for Trafalgar Square’s fourth plinth to be unveiled this week, he has the City in his sightsWhen the artist Hans Haacke was asked to submit a proposal for a statue to occupy the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square, his initial reaction was that it was a “good joke” to invite him but there was no way his work would be accepted. However, the project did appeal to him and he se
  
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• The Indian Queen, Coliseum, review: An evening in musical triumph

  27-02-2015 13:16
  
  Road-tested in Spain and Russia, Peter Sellars’ typically audacious completion of Purcell’s ‘semi-opera’ The Indian Queen has now arrived in London.
  
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• The 10 best art patrons

  27-02-2015 13:00
  
  As a new show at the National Gallery explores the influence of Paul Durand-Ruel, the dealer who ‘made’ the impressionists, Rachel Cooke highlights other great patrons and collectorsPeggy Guggenheim (1898-1979) Continue reading...
  
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• ISIS Destroys Ancient Statues At Mosul Museum – Or So They Think

  27-02-2015 10:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  Just days after the extremists burned the rare books in Mosul’s library, they went rampaging through the city museum’s collection of Akkadian and Assyrian statues, smashing the works with sledgehammers and drills. It seems, though, that many of the destroyed pieces weren’t originals. (includes video)
  
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• Stolen Picasso Found In FedEx Shipment At EWR

  27-02-2015 10:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  “A Picasso painting missing from Paris for more than a decade resurfaced in the United States, where it had been shipped under false pretenses as a $37 holiday-themed ‘art craft.'”
  
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• FCC Approves Strict Net Neutrality Rules, Declares Broadband A Public Utility

  27-02-2015 10:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Following one of the most intense – and bizarre – lobbying battles in the history of modern Washington politics, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) passed strict new rules that give the body its greatest power over the cable industry since the Internet went mainstream.” Said the FCC chairman, “This is no more a plan to […]
  
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• The New Net-Neutrality Policy, In Three Simple Phrases

  27-02-2015 10:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  “There are three major principles that Internet-service providers – like Comcast, AT&T, Time Warner Cable, and Verizon – have to follow when sending data from their networks to your computer:”
  
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• Happy Christmas! Stolen Picasso posted to New York by FedEx

  27-02-2015 10:34
  
  The 1911 painting La Coiffeuse, worth at least $2.5m, was found by US customs officers in a parcel marked Joyeux NoëlA stolen Picasso painting which had been missing for more than 10 years has been found in the US after it was posted to New York in a parcel marked “Happy Christmas”.The package labelled as “art craft/toy” with a value described as $37 (£24) arrived in Newark from Belgium in a FedEx shipment just before Christmas last year, marked Joyeux Noël (Happy Christmas i
  
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• Tonya Pinkins Remembers “Jelly’s Last Jam,” The Show That Won Her Her First Tony

  27-02-2015 10:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Jelly’s Last Jam was the first musical written and directed by an African American that was not simply a toe-tapping entertainment with happy, singing people of color. … [It] was akin to a Brancusi sculpture of 50 years in the life of an arrogant, racist, braggadocio genius.”
  
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• Memphis Symphony To Lose Music Director Mei-Ann Chen After Next Season

  27-02-2015 10:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Roland Valliere, MSO’s president and CEO, said it was no surprise. … Her decision comes at a time when the orchestra has been struggling financially. The MSO announced in January of last year that it was deep fiscal trouble, and it cut staff and expenses to survive the 2013-14 season. It drastically reduced offerings for […]
  
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• How A Book Club Is Helping To Keep Ex-Offenders From Going Back To Jail

  27-02-2015 10:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “They were all teenagers then, charged as adults for their violent crimes. At the D.C. jail, they found solace in a book club, reading memoirs and reciting poems they had written. Over the past year, they finally came home. They see themselves as reformed men who did dumb things as kids but who know that […]
  
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• “The Little Prince” Goes Out Of Copyright, And Turkish Publishers Go Nuts

  27-02-2015 10:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In the first two weeks of January, more than thirty Turkish publishers released translations of the 1943 novella. … In a newspaper books supplement the other week, almost half the adverts were for The Little Prince. One publisher put out a mandarine-flavoured edition. Another released three different versions, to show the differences in translation trends. […]
  
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• “Obscene” Poet Wins £40,000 David Cohen Prize For Literature

  27-02-2015 09:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  “[Tony] Harrison, 77, wrote his first poems 70 years ago, and has since written a number of films and plays. V., which describes the offensive language graffitied on Harrison’s parents’ grave, contains 25 uses of the word ‘f***’ and 17 uses of the word ‘c***’.”
  
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• Here Are The Nominees For “Oddest Book Title Of The Year”

  27-02-2015 09:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  The shortlist for the Diagram prize includes, among others, Divorcing a Real Witch, Nature’s Nether Regions, Strangers Have the Best Candy, The Madwoman in the Volvo: My Year of Raging Hormones, and The Ugly Wife Is a Treasure at Home.
  
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• Faking it? The controversial photos that scooped a World Press award

  27-02-2015 09:19
  
  Dark Heart of Europe is a series of photographs taken by Giovanni Troilo which won the contemporary issues category at World Press Photo 2015. However, Troilo has been accused of misrepresenting the town of Charleroi in which the images were taken. The mayor of the industrial Belgian town has described the study as a serious distortion of reality. Troilo has since admitted that some of his images were staged in order to recreate issues or scenes which he says typify Charlerloi, but he argues thi
  
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• Distortion of reality? Belgian town disputes award-winning photographs

  27-02-2015 09:19
  
  Dark Heart of Europe is a series of photographs taken by Giovanni Troilo which won the contemporary issues category at World Press Photo 2015. However, Troilo has been accused of misrepresenting the town of Charleroi in which the images were taken. The mayor of the industrial Belgian town has described the study as a serious distortion of reality. Troilo has since admitted that some of his images were staged in order to recreate issues or scenes which he says typify Charlerloi, but he argues thi
  
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• “The Brother From Another Planet”: J. Hoberman on Godard

  27-02-2015 09:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Taken with cinema, but not taken in by it, … [Godard] is also the brother from another planet, at once straightforward and cryptic, an epistemologist of cinema, wondering why the film frame became a square and why lenses are round. … What to make of the Godardian mind? You might say that, as prolific as […]
  
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• Campaign to save public art calls for national register

  27-02-2015 09:00
  
  Campaign to save public art calls for national register
  
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• Campaign to save post-war public art calls for national register

  27-02-2015 09:00
  
  Murals and mosaics identified as particularly at risk
  
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• Can God Lie? The Scientific Revolution Changed The Answer To That Question

  27-02-2015 08:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  “‘Can God lie?’ proved an important question for more than 1,000 years because it compelled theologians to consider in the starkest terms the nature of God’s relationship to the world. … These are important questions, but they also proved difficult to answer because the evidence seemed to contradict itself. … Far from being a mere […]
  
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• Getty Museum’s Top Curator To Retire After 35 Years

  27-02-2015 08:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  Thomas Kren, the associate director for collections (not to be confused with Thomas Krens, the controversial longtime director of the Guggenheim), will depart in October. He’ll be replaced by Richard Rand, senior curator of paintings and sculpture at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Mass.”
  
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• Opera House Boss Resigns After 53 Days On The Job

  27-02-2015 08:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ye-jin (Regina) Han, a 44-year-old soprano, faced opposition from the day she was appointed general director of the Korean National Opera: local organizations argued that she lacked the experience and qualifications to lead the country’s flagship company. Han’s departure comes two months after the CEO of the Seoul Philharmonic was forced to resign following the […]
  
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• Alexei Ratmansky Goes Forward To The Past For ABT’s New “Sleeping Beauty”

  27-02-2015 08:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  “This production is not an occasion for him to express his bold originality as is the case with his Nutcracker … Rather, his approach to Sleeping Beauty is to re-create as closely as possible the 1890 choreography by Marius Petipa,” notation for which has survived.
  
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• Carlos Acosta Says Dance Education Should Be Free

  27-02-2015 08:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  “[Dance education] should not have a cost or price. … When you put a price on [access], then you divide into two camps those who can and those who cannot. In the camp of those who cannot I bet there is a lot of talent there, a lot of Nureyev … I think we should […]
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 02.26.15

  27-02-2015 07:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Metropolitan Museum Decries “Catastrophic Destruction” of Mosul Museum’s Collection AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-02-26 Music For the Rich – Only AJBlog: CultureCrash Published 2015-02-26 Villain for a Day AJBlog: PostClassic Published 2015-02-26 Payton At The Portland Festival AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2015-02-26
  
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